Improvement in baling press



@uiten grains aient @fitta FREDERICK F. CORN ELL, JR., OF-N EW YORK, N.Y., ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND EDWIN M. WIGHT.

Letters Patent No. 61,718, dated February 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAIINcPRsss.

'IO ALL WHOM ITfMAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK F. CORNELL, Jr., of .the city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements inBaling Presses; and I do hereby declare lthat the following is apfull,clcnr, and exact description of the same,-refercnce being had -to theaccompanying 1drawings,.rnaking. part of the specication. i

The objects of my invention are, iirst, to provide in a beater ba'iingpress, a new and convenient method of using the beater as a follower andhead-block in combination with toggle-leversv located at the sides orends of the press box, when their Shanks or movable ends work upwardduring the process of compressing the material in the press-chamber;second, a new and convenientv method of forming a close packing chamberthroughout its entire length, when the follower is operated by means ofbeams or arms,.or their equivalent, projecting into or 4through theframing of the sides of the press in order to make a connection withtheY compressing power; third,

a new and convenient method of operating automatically the beams-or armsby means of which the combined beater and follower, though `allowed tomove freely when performing its functions ns a beater, is held in firmconnection with the compressing power when used as a follower; fourth,a-new and convenient method of connecting the ends of toggle-leverslocated at the end or side of a baling press, with the power used foroperating them by'means of which their motions shall at all times besimultaneous and in the same plane; and, fifth, a new and improvedarrangement of toggle-levers outside of the press framing, in relationto their position as to the other portions of the press. Intheaccoinpanying drawing#- Figure 1 is a. longitudinalvertical elevationof 'a beater 'Daling press taken in the line y y of iig. 2.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section taken in the line a.' :c ofiig. 1.

Figure 3 is .a horizontal cross-section taken in the line w w in iig. 1.

The same letters are used in reference to the same parts in each of thefigures. v

Before describing the mode of construction of my improved beater balingpress, and of such portions as may also be advantageously used in otherforms of construction and arrangement, I would remark that the modes ofconstructing beater baling presses 4may be classied under` threedivisions, which will accurately dcne the character of all those in useprevious to this, my invention, viz p 1. Those which use the beater asahead-block, and compress by a follower moved upward by a supportingpower operating under the press framing.

2. Those using the beater as a follower and drawing or forcing it downfor the purpose 'of compressing the bale by a power moving in the samedirection; and

3. AThose using a suspended follower in combination with a beater-usedas a. xed head.

The first was the primary mode of construction, and the third has in allits forms been already secured to me by Letters Patent ofthe UnitedStates, reissue No. 2,101, A. D. 1865, and Lnow desire to secure the useof a beater asa follower when the power operates in an oppositedirection from the motion of the beater.

In constructingthis new form of press, I securely frame together theground sills G G and bed-pieces A, by means of the intermediateblocks pp p and side supports n n n n, leavingV the space in the centre occupiedby the drums D D', and their gearing E E, and the pulley F, and at' theends by the sheaves U- II U U and V V. Upon the said bed-piece A Iconstruct an ordinary beater press frame with bale doors at the bottomat rr, and feed door at convenient height, and with slides for beater,as shown extended in' dotted lines of fig. 1. In this press-box Iplace'a beater, B, of ordinary construction, but with a slot on itsupper face, running longitudinally through the centre thereof, of anyrequired depth to-t thetilting bars C C, and with n. crossfbeam, L,framed into the sides J" J of the beater B, in such position that whenthe bars C Care turned on the bolts c c by draw.

ing on the rope Z, their ends d d will press firmly against it; the slotM M being of such depth at the ends of the beater that the bars C C thenassume a horizontal position with their outer ends extending throughinto the sides of the press frame so as to engage with the compressingpower, as will be hereafter explained. A recess is leftin the interiorof said beater of such shape that when there is no pressure on the outerends of the bars A o r lifting power applied to the inner ends, theweight of said inner ends, aided by the counterpoise weights gg, willv'cause them to fall into said recess as they tilt loosely' on the boltsc c, thus swinging the outer ends within the outside of the ends of thebeater D. To the cross-beam L, a rope may be attnchedin any convenientform for the purpose of operating the beater by any usual mechanism.V.At the endsof the press-frame, for the purposeof compressing thematerial inl the press-box after the filling has been performed by thebeater, I locate the levers N N, which are supported on movable fulcrumpins iz' by the radii O O O O, whose lower ends play loosely upon thebolts ic 7c, which bolts have their ends firmly secured to the hed-plateat such a distance from the framing as will enable the radii tobeelevat'ed to a perpendicular position. "Uponeach of these bolts,between the feet of the radii are placed three sheaves, two large, UU,and` one small, V, the smaller between the two larger. In the upper endsor shanks of the levers are placed lifting bolts or pins h 7i. Betweenthe posts of the frame of the press, in suitable grooves orpslidestt, asshown in iig; 1, are placed, one on each side, the drawheads Q Q, which`move `freely up and down in the same a distance equal to the draw onAthe follower in compressing the bale.Y Next to said grooves or slides,on either end of said draw or cross-heads, areattached pendent ropes orchains 'I' T T T, which pass down the outside of the lining, but withinthe framing of the press-chamber until they reach the sheaves U U U,around each of which the rope or chain corresponding to it in positionis passed, and thence carried up and attached to the lifting bolts orpins it 7a, one on each side of the shanks of the levers, said rope orchain T T being of such length as will allow the draw-heads when thelevers are in position to commence moving up for the purpose ofcompressing the bale, to stand in the extreme upper part of the slides tt. I control the movement of the upper ends of the-levers, so that theyshall be compelled to move in parallel lines, by extending the liftingpieces or bolts 7a 71 into slidesg g, attached outside of the pressframe or in any position'v best suited to the form and proportions oi'the press when constructed. Also to the centre of the upper face of thedraw-heads Q Q I attach liftingV cords S S, which pass over theircorresponding sheaves P P, situated so as to allow the cords S S to liftin a vertical line when drawnpupon by the weights R R, which areattached to the other ends of the lifting-cords, and are delivered fromthe sheaves P P in such position as to secure them against interferencewith the working of the other parts of the press, the caps K K beingused in this connection only to show the ropes in position in theabsence of the slides for the beater, to which in practice they could beconveniently attached. To the lower ends of the levers NN I attach vtheropes or chains X X, the other ends of which are attached to theircorresponding drums D D at their upper edge, as shown in tig. 1, andwhich ropes or chains pass between the sheaves U U U U, and under thesheaves V V, which last are to prevent any rubbing against the bolts KK. Thcwdrums D D turn loosely on the bolts ZZ, -which are secured tothelower framing o' the press in such position that the inner faces of thedrums each nearly touch a right line drawn through the points ofattachment of the ropes or chains to the levers; on the lower edge ofthe/perim eter of each of the drums D D', I place cog-gearing E, that onone meshing into that of the other with equal number of teeth in each,and to one of said drums, on its lower face, I attach a driving-pulleyor wheel, F, on which I wind the rope to be carried to the power bywhich the drums through this connecting gearing are made torevolve inopposite directions, winding the chains or ropes XX on their perimeters,and so drawing the levers N N into a vertical position. I have beforesaid that the'con'nection between the compressing power and the beateris made bymeans of the ends of the bars C C extending into or throughthe sides of the framing of the press, and in consequence a slot in thelining of the press would be necessary tovallow motion to the followerincompressing. These slots, both in presses in which it is placed abovethe bale mould as in the various forms of the beater press, where thebeater is used as a follower, and in those in which it is placed belowthe mould,

as in all those operated by levers located at the sides or ends of thepress framing, except as in those modes ot" construction heretoforesecured to me by Letters Patent, are found to be objectionable, and toremedy'this otherwise defect in this style of construction, and toobtainfor it, in part at least, the advantages secured by my patentissued heretofore on close press-boxes formed by travelling sides orrods, I-have formedpa removableside, which, when the bale is beingfilled, will, if in position, formaclose press-box; but,'which, when thebale is to be compressed, may be so far withdrawn as to leave a slot forthe projecting ends of the follower to movefreely through the lining ofthe press. To accomplish this end, I form movable sections of the liningof the presschamber H H at I I. On their upper and lower edges I maketongues which move and it in suitable guards or grooves, as seen at ffffin iig. 1. The inner edge of this movable section is at'the further sideof the slot, and the section extends over the rest of the face of thepress-chamber to its outer edge, Where it may be provided with suitablehandles todraw it out, as is shown in fig. 2, in which case the slot isleft entirely open. I do not confine myself to this peculiar mode ofconstruction ot' the removable sides, as it will be readily seen thatthey can be made to moveupward or downward, and yet answerthe same end.x

Having thusstated the general principles of construction and position ofthe parts, I will now brieiiy describe the mode of operation: The leversbeing down, as shown in iig. 1, and the` draw-heads Q Qin position atthe tops of the slides t t, and the press-box closed, the material isput into the chamber and packed by the beater in the ordinary manneruntil the box is illed to such a height that the ends of the beams,bars, or arms C G, will, when drawn into a horizontal position, fitloosely under the said draw-heads. When filled to thispoint,the-removable sides I I are drawn out so as to expose the slot in thelining a,`shown in fig. 2. The operator now draws on the rope Z untileach of the`ends d d are brought against the cross-beam L. The rope V,which is now wound around the pulley F as many tims as it will takeVrevolutions of the drums D D to wind up the chains VX X, is then drawnupon by the power which operates the press, causing the pulley torevolve outward from the centre of the framing, carrying with it itsattached drum D, which by means of the gearing E E causes the drum D torevolve with the same rate of speedand in an opposite direction, thuswinding up the ropes or chains X X, and drawing the lower ends of thevlevers N N inward until said levers assume a vertical position, and thismode of arrangement, while it secures uniformity of action in thelevers, also insures a continnous tension in the same vertical plane, nomattei` how many times the ropes are wound around the drums, or how muchthey may draw either below or above the plane of the motion of the lowerends of the levers, which eti'ectually prevents any undue strain uponthe articulating points of the toggles or any pressure out of the eine 3intended planes of motion. As the ends jj of the levers are drawn in bythe ropes or chains X X, the shanks ascend, and the lifting pins 7L lz,moving freely in the slides g y, preserve a parallel position, and atthe same time carry with them the ropes or chains T T T T, which passingdown and around the sheaves U U U U have the direction of their motionreversed, and by their connection with the draw or cross-heads Q Q, drawthe same down, which last being 'held securely over the Aarms C C bymeans of their Islides or guardst t, communicate their downward` motionto them, and through them to the beater B, byV their pressure on itsends J J, thus causing it to move down into the prcss-chamber,compressing the material therein until it assumes the position, shown infig. l in red lines, the relative position ofthe draw-heads, levers,radii, conneetingropes, and counterpoise weights P P being also allshown in similar lines. AThe bale may now be secured, and then removedas follows: By relieving the strain on the rope X, the tension of theropes X X will cause the drums D D to revolve, and the rope Y will beagainiwound upon the pulley F, and the levers will assume their rst'position from their own weight, and as they descend the counterpoises RR, aetingbn the draw-heads Q Q through the lifting cords s sfwill drawthem upward as fast as the ropes or chains T T T T are slackened, and asthe pressure on the ends of the, arms C C is thus removed they will oftheir own 'weight fall inward and disconnect the beater from thecompressing'power, when it may be raised andl the bale taken out of theballe'doors r1', and on pushing into place the removable sections I Iot' the side linings of the press, it is ready to commence again theoperation of filling.

What-I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The use of the beater B, as a follower when operated as such by thelevers N N", located at the ends of the press.

2. The use in a baling press of stirrups or cross-heads located outsideof the lining of the press-chamber, but within the framing of the press,as a means of communicating motion to the follower, when the same hasarms or beams projecting through slots in the lining of thepress-chamber for the purpose of forming a conneetion with mechanismusedv for compressing, located and operating at the sides or ends of thepres-s framing.`

3. The use in a baling press of toggle-levers located outside 'of-theframing of the press, when the feet of the radii of the levers are belowthe plane of the top ofthe finished bale, and the points ofconnectionbetwecn the upper ends of the lever, and the rods, chains, ortheir eduivalents, connecting the same with the arms or beam'of theplaten, are abovelthe said plane.

4. The use of the guides y fj to control 'the motion of the levers NN,when operated as herein substantially described.

5. The use of the guides t t, cross-heads Q Q, ropes S'S, andcolinterpoises R It, when used and combined for the purposes hereindescribed.

6. Making a close press-chamber in a baling press (operated by means ci'a follower having arms or beams projecting through the liningthereof toform a connection with the compressing mechanism) by means of removablesections of said lining, which, when in position render the press-boxtight on all sides, but when removed, allow the said arms or beams tomove freelyin the openings formed thereby.

7. The removable sides I I, in combination with the tongues and groovesffff, arms C C, and cross-heads Q Q, substantially as and for thepurposes described.

8. The levers N N, radii O O O 04, sheaves U U U U, chains or ropes S SS S, cross-heads Q Q, arms CC, and follower B, combined, substantiallyas and for the purposeshereinbet'ore described.

9. The use in a baling press of two horizontal drums, so located underthe press fra-ming, that a"vertical plane passing through the points inthe ends of toggle-levers located at the ends or sides of the saidframing to which the chains or ropes used for operating them areattached, will be tangent to their perimetersfor thevpurpose of windingthe said ropes or chains, and yet retaining them always in the samevertical` plane. l

10. The use in a baling press of the drums D D', gear-wheels E E,driving-pulley F, and ropes or chains X X and Y, substantially as andfor the purposes hereinbefore described.

1I. The use of a hollow beater, B, with the arms or beams C C, bolts 01'pivots c e, and head-beam L, so con structed and arranged tha-t the saidarms, when allowedw to turn freely on the bolts c c, will of their ownweight assume a position entirely within the exterior lines ofsaidbeater, but when drawn upon bythe cord Z, will assume a horizontalposition with their inner ends held firmly` by the head beam, and, theirouter ends project. ing a sufficient distance beyond the exterior linesof the beater to engage with the Ymechanism used to operate it as afollower.

'E F. COR-NELL; TR-11.-

Y Witnesses:

JONA. BELL, FREDERICK C. Jexnnn.-

